Recently, a group of eminent Chinese/US economists and legal scholars issued a thought-provoking Joint Statement on “US – China Trade Relations: A Way Forward”. However, the Joint Statement does not provide practical solutions to the real issues in the bilateral negotiations. Moreover, by...

To many observers, a major challenge raised by China's accession to the WTO is whether the WTO dispute settlement system could cope with China, one of the major traders in the world with an economy that is halfway between a planned economy and a market economy. In this article, the author tries...